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Cup, ring and groove marked rock west of the path between Black Hill and Loftshaw Gill is a prehistoric rock art panel located on Middleton Moor in Yorkshire. The rock bears cup marks, ring marks, and linear grooves characteristic of Bronze Age rock art traditions found across northern Britain, typically dating to the second millennium BCE. Such marked rocks served ritual, territorial, or ceremonial functions within prehistoric communities and remain significant archaeological evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and symbolic expression on the moorlands. The monument's position within the wider landscape of Middleton Moor Enclosure situates it within a complex of prehistoric activity and land use.
Cup, ring and groove marked rock west of the path between Black Hill and Loftshaw Gill, 300m NNE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014180. View the official record →
Cup, ring and groove marked rock west of the path between Black Hill and Loftshaw Gill is a prehistoric rock art panel located on Middleton Moor in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014180.
Cup, ring and groove marked rock west of the path between Black Hill and Loftshaw Gill, 300m NNE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1014180.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prominent cup-marked rock east of track, north east of Stanbury Hill (8.9 km), Group of five carved rocks on the western ridge of Stanbury Hill (9 km), Rock with shallow cup and ring-markings at the western end of the ridge on Stanbury Hill (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cup, ring and groove marked rock west of the path between Black Hill and Loftshaw Gill, 300m NNE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cup, ring and groove marked rock west of the path between Black Hill and Loftshaw Gill, 300m NNE of the shooting shelter in Middleton Moor Enclosure stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.